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Hopefully by now, you’ve got your head around getting a PHP script to run by uploading it to a server and accessing its results through a web browser. If you stuck around for Part 2 in this series, you might even have dabbled with a Form or two. POSTing to a Form is one way of taking in information, doing something with it, and showing a result to the user. To take this much further, PHP can integrate very well with a database - this allows you, the PHP programmer, to display all kinds of data in limitless different ways to your website visitor. In this installment (Part 3), we’re going to take a look at hooking up a PHP script to a MySQL database.

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman
Directed by: David Yates
Running Time: 2 hours and 18 minutes.
Release Date: July 11th, 2007

Billions upon billions of dollars/roubles/yen have been spent in the last half century or so to begin the human quest into space. Many would argue that this money could have been used to build better roads, better healthcare…indeed, it could even have been used to help stem the tide of famine, war and disease.

Title: 28 Days Later
Directed by Danny Boyle
Release: 2001
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Naomi Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, Christopher Eccleston

Our poor old Epson Stylus Colour 600 finally gave up the ghost after many years of faithful service recently. It was slow, it was cumbersome, it was heavy, but it did the job with nary a whimper. Our printing requirements are fairly low, so a replacement model didn’t need to be anything fancy, just something cheap and cheerful.

Have you noticed your PC is running more and more slowly over the last few months? That may well be the result of months and months of cookies, temporary files and even spyware clogging up your machines guts. Here’s a few quick tips to help get it back up to speed.

In the first part of this tutorial, we looked at how PHP can be used to display dynamic data, like todays date. You’ve also by now hopefully figured out the process of making a .php file, uploading it to your web host, and running it. With that much done, its time to try something a little more adventurous!

Have you ever gone to a website and after you have logged in, it shows you your sign up name, right there on the screen? Or it shows today’s date, or today’s cinema listings? These are all examples of “dynamic” elements on a website - they are generated and presented to you when you visit the website. With PHP, you can do all this and much, much more - and we’ll show you how!

I installed IE7 on both my laptop and my desktop PC when it was released. While I could right-click on a link on the desktop and get an “Open in New Tab” option, the laptop simply didn’t display the option. After much routing around, and a little Googling, I found a solution.

Unless you’ve been under a very large rock (or an Xbox 1, natch), no doubt you will have noticed that the Next Generation of game console wars is well underway. The aggressors? The Sony PS3, the Microsoft XBox 360, and the last entrant to the market, the Nintendo Wii. Let me tell you why we should all rejoice; the Nintendo Wii may well have saved the home games console market.